Westfal-Larsen & Co

This is also a Norwegian company, based in Bergen.
According to the plates of Norwegian houseflags dating from 1953 the letters in
this flag should be red and from personal observation I believe this is still
the case.Jan Oskar Engene, 16 October, 2003

Formed in 1905 they changed name 1996 to
Westfal-Larsen Management A/S. According to Loughrsn and Talbot-Booth the
initial flag was a red swallowtailed pennant with a narrow blue horizontal band
edged with narrower white bands which was, according to Loughran, replaced by the end of World War 1. As the design, if not the proportions, was
the same as the naval Commodore's broad pennant adopted 7.6.1906 (Kannik 1958) a
change is not to be wondered at. If anything I am surprised that it took so
long. All the main sources only show red lettering with the Brown and
Talbot-Booth series and Loughran 1979 [2] differing by not having any dot after the
"L", Stewart 1963 has no dots at all and US Navy 1961 [8] only has a dot under "o".
Loughran differs by having a wider white band.

There is no indication by any of these publications that there was a flag
with blue letters and I regard this as being very suspect with the source not
being in my "authoritative" publications list. It is suspect like Brown 1926 [9]
which replaces the "W" with a "P" for no reason which is apparent, the likely
error then being perpetuated by The 1933 Lloyds Reedereiflaggen[17] cigarette card
collection.

According to Loughran the lettering was changed in
1963 to the plain red "WL".Neale Rosanoski, 11 December 2003

image by Jarig Bakker, 20 January 2006Source:Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the
World[4]